David Hallberg - Prince's Variation from Nureyev's Swan Lake - 2014

In April 2014, David Hallberg made his La Scala debut tackling the tricky choreography of Rudolf Nureyev's version of Swan Lake. Here is the Prince's variation.

[@nicolehourcade]

Powerful, elegant, great precision of the movement, an outstanding dancer👌🎶👏

[@carmen9330]

Not easy at all...so elegant and gracefully danced, bravo Mr.Hallberg!!

[@zxaddictxz]

David is the most princely, graceful, romantic fairy-tale prince who has ever danced in ABT. There have been other top dancers whom I like a lot but nobody as elegant as David when it comes to Russian ballets.

[@margaretnoble4805]

I am sure this is exactly as Nureyev imagined it. Beautiful. Sublime.

[@wagnergalore5866]

Extraordinary! So graceful while he is beautiful.

[@braga144]

Many thanks Graham, I was there and he was great

[@mariannesmith5379]

Beautiful slow ballet work

[@virginiamariadubois3105]

La variazione del principe dal Lago dei cigni di Nureyev è complessa e non facile, ma D.Hallberg l'ha eseguita egregiamente. Grazie mille per la condivisione

[@reneerichero1219]

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[@Hugoline1609]

It's very beautiful but I won't forget jose martinez either

[@avesraggiana]

Why the homoerotic innuendo between Siegfried and Von Rothbart? Oh, that’s right. Nureyev.

[@airtraveller8324]

Oh yes! that's Nureyev.

[@reneerichero1219]

Yes. It's the great Nureyev....and

[@reneerichero1219]

And there are a lot of studies about the Prince's homosexuality-he regrets his'mother request to an heterosexual engagement- and the beginning of his madness when he falls in love with a swan. Freud' intrerpretations and many others not Freudians agree. Probably, this were the basis that expresses so deep pain and sadness that Tchaickowski was living.

[@susanpfaust]

That's not Rothbart - it is the prince's tutor - you dont know the story of Swan Lake

[@avesraggiana]

@@susanpfaust Oh, whatever. Being Nureyev, he probably has his tutor morph into the evil magician, Von Rothbart in the second and third and fourth acts. Give me a break.

[@MrQbenDanny]

Surprisingly sloppy, I was expecting near perfection. For THAT, go to Dowell.

[@jillgooner]

whats sloppy about that? infact he riminded me of Dowell